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Letter writer Nelson Marans says that apart from the Holocaust there have been no mass atrocities in predominantly Christian countries in modern times ("Obama's comparison of medieval Christianity and modern Islamist extremism was hurtful," Feb. 11). Evidently he does not count Rwanda, where 800,000 people were killed in a hundred days in 1994. Based on its 2002 census, Rwanda is 94 percent Christian, predominantly Catholic. That the slaughter there was motivated by ethnic rather than religious hatred does not alter the fact that it was perpetrated by professed Christians, in flagrant violation of all Christian teaching. There will be time enough to talk about...

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Letter writer Nelson Marans says that apart from the Holocaust there have been no mass atrocities in predominantly Christian countries in modern times ("Obama's comparison of medieval Christianity and modern Islamist extremism was hurtful," Feb....

Alexis Safali, 60, said he was a lawyer and an activist in his home country of Rwanda.
Now, he said, he is an official asylum-seeker in the United States, working for an hourly wage as an assistant manager and artisan at Tembo Group, an unusual arts...

After months of hesitation, President Barack Obama has authorized the use of U.S. military force, including limited airstrikes, against Islamic militants in Iraq who in recent months have overrun large parts of the country and now threaten the northern...

Mykola "Mike" Koropeckyj, a retired noncommissioned Army officer who later worked for the Social Security Administration, died June 5 of lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Columbia.
The Edmondson Heights resident was 70.
The son of a...

JERUSALEM - Air Force Col. Ilan Ramon's adventure into space as Israel's first astronaut gave a weary nation a reason to cheer. He was as much a diversion from a drawn-out conflict and a bitter election as he was a symbol of pride.
"He was a...

The lecture hall had filled quickly. Several students arrived wearing keffiyehs, the traditional Palestinian headscarves, while in the front row, a young man sat draped in the Israeli flag. As the meeting opened, a student government officer reviewed...

A foundation based in Indianapolis has committed $20 million as an endowment gift for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to fund work in preventing genocide. The museum announced the gift Thursday from the Samerian Foundation and its founders, Cynthia...

The slain gunman suspected in the deadly Copenhagen attacks was a 22-year-old with a history of violence and may have been inspired by Islamic terrorists — and possibly the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, Danish authorities said Sunday.
Prime Minister...

The wobbly white tarp tents once constructed for people fleeing a violent Rwandan Hutu rebel group have gradually been replaced by more solid huts of branches, banana leaves and mud. After all, it's been nine years now since the residents became...

The United Nations' top court ruled Tuesday that Serbia and Croatia did not commit genocide against each other's people during the bloody 1990s wars sparked by the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.
The ruling could help put to rest lingering...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands Mutual claims of genocide brought by Croatia and Serbia that date back to the disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s were dismissed Tuesday by the UN's highest court. The ruling by the International Court of Justice in...

The United Nations' top court ruled Tuesday that Serbia and Croatia did not commit genocide against each other's people during the bloody 1990s wars sparked by the breakup of Yugoslavia. The ruling could help put to rest lingering animosities between...

Lawyer Amal Clooney went before Europe's top human rights court Wednesday to argue against a man convicted of denying the 1915 Armenian genocide.
Clooney is representing Armenia as part of an appeal before the Strasbourg-based European Court of...

As a longtime federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, N.Y., Loretta Lynch confronted murderers, the Mafia and violent drug peddlers. She is probably best known for convicting two New York police officers in the 1997 broomstick sodomizing of Haitian immigrant...

Six years ago, Nigerian forces captured the leader of the extremist group Boko Haram and killed him in custody — a move that was to have far-reaching consequences.
Nigeria had exchanged a charismatic preacher named Mohammed Yusuf for the more radical and...

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser was right to speak out on the terrorist attacks in Paris. Washington and Paris have been sister cities since 2000. Those heinous acts against freedom of speech, Bowser noted, only strengthen the bond between the two...

Hundreds of bodies — too many to count — remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested Friday is the "deadliest massacre" in the history of Boko Haram.Mike Omeri, the government...

Security forces on Friday killed an alleged organizer of last week's school massacre, the latest sign that the government and military are stepping up their assault on the Pakistani Taliban and other Islamist militant groups.
The slaying of the Taliban...

In February 2007, Yale clinicians identified in Adam Lanza what they believed were profound emotional disabilities and offered him treatment that they said could give him relief for the first time in his troubled life.
But Adam was angry and anxious, and...